A high govt of a Singapore AI cloud agency that was accused of illegally promoting Nvidia chips to China may even have been a Chinese language spy, anonymous sources told the New York Times.
The chief, Alice Huang (or Huang Le), labored for Megaspeed and was photographed as certainly one of a number of individuals hanging out with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang throughout numerous enterprise dinners within the Singapore area. U.S. intelligence companies had been surveilling Alice Huang to study extra about her ties with China for a few yr, the Instances stories.
The priority, sources stated, was that Alice Huang had grown so near Jensen Huang that she may have been gathering details about Nvidia’s plans and the CEO’s efforts to persuade the Trump administration to permit it to ship extra superior know-how to China.
However an Nvidia spokesperson denied this, telling TechCrunch that the CEO’s relationship with the Megaspeed govt was the identical as with every different regional buyer.
“Jensen’s interactions with Ms. Huang aren’t uncommon or surprising. Conferences with prospects are a part of a C.E.O.’s job; Jensen talks with hundreds of buyer executives yearly,” the spokesperson stated in an emailed assertion. The corporate additionally stated, “Our regional cloud prospects obtain peculiar enterprise data — not delicate NVIDIA commerce secrets and techniques — and nil data related to nationwide safety.”
In 2025, the Times reported that the Commerce Division had investigated Megaspeed over considerations that it was serving to Chinese language corporations sidestep AI chip export laws by reselling restricted chips to them. Alice Huang was stated to be a high govt for the agency on the time.
